Glenn Beck: Environmentalist? An interview with Beck in USA Weekend revealed that the shock jock's private views on climate are very different from those he espouses in his day job. In fact, Beck appears not only to be convinced that global warming is

Yesterday, TreeHugger rounded up a few green charities that are helping the recovery effort in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake. MoJo's human rights reporter Mac McClelland has a few more suggestions for how to help one of the poorest and least

Happy new year, TreeHuggers. It's looking like 2010 might not be so happy for the proposed offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound known as Cape Wind. Over at Mother Jones, we've been tracking the beleaguered project's most recent set of obstacles. For

It's been a busy first few days of the Copenhagen climate talks for Mother Jones and our coconspirators. The big news so far: The world's poorest countries--a bloc known as the Group of 77, or G77--refuse to be steamrolled by rich nations hoping for

The island nation of Tuvalu is sinking. Its residents are already seeking a new home, making them the world's first climate refugees. Read Rachel Morris' riveting account of her visit to a community of Tuvaluans who have fled to New Zealand--a sneak

For evidence that grassroots activism works, look no further than writer and climate activist Bill McKibben, who has spent the past year tirelessly knocking on doors with his climate crew over at 350.org. But as McKibben writes this week, door-knocking

Happy Thursday, TreeHuggers. Everyone knows that America spends a ton of money on health care. But it turns out we spend a lot of fossil fuels on it, too. In fact, a recent study found that a full 8 percent of our carbon emissions come from

It's been a busy week over at Mother Jones: First, there's been quite a stir over the Yes Men pranksters' Chamber of Commerce shenanigans, and earlier this week MoJo blogger Kate Sheppard appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk about the stunt.